2018 Barishal City Corporation election

The 2018 Barishal City Corporation election was an election in Barisal, Bangladesh, held on 30 July 2018 to elect the next Mayor of Barisal. Serniabat Sadiq Abdullah was elected as second mayor of the Barishal City Corporation in August 2018.

2018 Barishal City Corporation election

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Mayoral election
Registered	2,41,959
Nominee Serniabat Sadiq Abdullah Mujibur Rahman Sarwar Party AL BNP Popular vote 1,09,803 13,041 Percentage 78.91% 9.37%
Mayor before election Ahsan Habib Kamal BNP Elected Mayor Serniabat Sadiq Abdullah AL
Council election
40 seats in the Barisal City Corporation
Party Leader Seats +/– AL Sadiq Abdullah 27 BNP Mujibur Rahman 4 Independent — 8 JP(E) — 1 This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.

Candidates

Mayoral election

Name		Party	Ref.
Serniabat Sadiq Abdullah		Bangladesh Awami League	^[1]
Mujibur Rahman Sarwar		Bangladesh Nationalist Party
Obaidur Rahman Mahbub		Islami Andolon Bangladesh
Md Iqbal Hossain		Jatiya Party (Ershad)
Abul Kalam Azad		Communist Party of Bangladesh
Manisha Chakrabarty		Bangladesh Samajtantrik Dal

Incidents

Before the elections, hundreds of Bangladesh Nationalist Party activists were detained.^[2]

BNP candidate Sarwar withdrew before the voting was completed alleging irregularities with the voting.^[3]

A mayoral candidate, Manisha Chakraborty of BSD, was assaulted as she protested snatching of ballot papers by AL supporters at a polling station in ward-17 in Barisal.^[4]

Results

Mayoral election result

Abdullah received 107,353 votes while his nearest rival, Mazibor Rahman Sarwar of Bangladesh Nationalist Party, received 13,135 votes.^[5]

Barisal Mayoral Election 2018

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AL	Serniabat Sadiq Abdullah	1,09,803
	BNP	Mujibur Rahman Sarwar	13,041
Majority			96,762
Turnout			1,39,151
Registered electors			2,41,959
	AL gain from BNP

Council election Results

Party-wise

2018 BCC council election results (party-wise)^[6]

Party		Seats
		Ward Councilors	Reserved Women Councilors	Total Councilors
	Bangladesh Awami League	21	7	27
	Bangladesh Nationalist Party	3	1	4
	Jatiya Party (Ershad)	1	—	1
	Independent	6	2	8
Total		30	10	40

Aftermath

The election was boycotted by the candidates of Communist Party of Bangladesh and Islami Andolon Bangladesh who alleged vote rigging.^[7]

They demanded the Election Commission postpone the polls.^[8]

New elected mayor Abdullah was sworn in office by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at the Prime Minister's Office in Dhaka.^[9]

References

1. "City polls: Awami League wins Rajshahi, Barishal, results postponed in Sylhet". Dhaka Tribune. 31 July 2018. Retrieved 12 October 2019.
2. "An uneven battlefield". The Daily Star. 2018-08-02. Retrieved 2021-07-07.
3. "BNP, CPB, IAB boycott Barisal city polls". The Daily Star. 30 July 2018. Retrieved 12 October 2019.
4. "Elections in 3 Cities: AL wins 2, irregularities rule". The Daily Star. 31 July 2018. Retrieved 12 October 2019.
5. "Sadiq Abdullah of AL bags eight times more votes than BNP's Sarwar in Barishal mayor race". bdnews24.com. Retrieved 2020-03-06.
6. "বরিশালে কাউন্সিলর পদে আ.লীগ ২৩, বিএনপি ৪". Dhaka Times (in Bengali). 31 July 2018. Retrieved 12 October 2019.
7. "BCC polls: Serniabat leads by huge margin". The Daily Star. 2018-07-31. Retrieved 2021-07-07.
8. "City polls: Awami League wins Rajshahi, Barishal, results postponed in Sylhet". Dhaka Tribune. 31 July 2018. Retrieved 12 October 2019.
9. "New Barishal mayor Sadiq Abdullah sworn in". The Daily Star. 2018-10-22. Retrieved 2021-07-07.